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Marina Abramović

Performance artist

Serbia · b. 1946

Serbian performance artist whose works include Rhythm 0, the twelve-day The House with the Ocean View and The Artist Is Present, a 736-hour piece performed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2010. She was born in Belgrade and has worked in Amsterdam and New York.

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What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?

Spend your time on something meaningful. Not on parties, and not on taking it easy. That’s not good enough. […] When you’re young, you think: Let’s party, do drugs, drink, waste it all, right? But as you get older, you look at what you’ve accomplished. And when you get old, you’ve run out of time. You have to ask yourself: Why am I here? Can I contribute anything to humanity, to society, my work?

Recorded University Post, University of Copenhagen public talk, University Post (uniavisen.dk), University of Copenhagen source

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